L.A. Kings v. Buffalo Sabres Game Day Thread. Go Könige Go!

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

– Winston Churchill

Los Angeles Kings

(1-0-0)

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Buffalo Sabres

(1-0-0)

Our boys are in Berlin to take on the Buffalo Sabres. The game time is 11:oo a.m. PST so, for those who like to sleep in on Saturdays, that is me jumping on your bed while Surly drinks your OJ and places Vaseline on the toilet seat.

We just came off an emotional overtime victory in rowdy and raucous Sweden, where they take hockey like their sex…

But now, we’re in Germany at the O!2 arena, the land where the beer flows, the girls are easy (speaking from experience) and there are plenty of tubular meat products to go around…

Ich liebe Deutschland!

Jonathan Bernier gets the start in net and, in outstanding Terry Murray style, he puts in Kevin Westgarth in place of Trent Hunter.

Verdammt! Warum müssen Sie so verrückt?

The Sabres fancy themselves finishers but our suffocating style will make sure there are no happy endings for them today. Be it in regulation or overtime, even a shootout, I want to see our boys leave Europe 2-0.

This is the home for the die-hards. I now leave this game day thread open for you…sound off!

the kid is full on legit in my mind! everyone heard the versus guys all over his great play against the rags yesterday.

i didnt know what to think about him last year, he did progress very well towards the end of the season. but this year so far, in camp and preseason, he has proven to be another very talented young D man for us!

Ya, last year was his first full season with the big boys. Of course there was growing pains along the way, but I thought he played quite well.

I agree with you regarding his play at the end of the season. He was solid. I wrote last year that he had quietly become the best PP point man on the team. He will only get better. Nice problem to have?